"Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home after at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another." - Paul Bowles

Henri deMonfried - An extraordinary life - He new how to live - We are talking about pure passion for life - a risk taker who managed to live to the golden age of 95.

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A Philosopher, Sailor, Writer, Gun runner -he ran guns into Abyssinia through Tajura, Hashish Smuggler - of the coasts of East Africa and Southern Arabia, and Pearl Diver - He arrived in Djibouti (then a French colony) in 1910/11 and - it was there it all started from 1912 to 1940.

."MosquéedeMamoudi...Djibouti "- 1923"

Henri son of an artist was artistic as well and had grown up surrounded by art and artists - His father Daniel was a good friend of Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin. Daniel - a painter,art dealer, and Gauguin’s agent in Europe during the years he resided in Tahiti and the Marquesas...

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Kikuyu Village 1942.

After he returned to his home country (France) from East Africa in 1947 he changed his life around to painting and writing

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His books are anthropological, colorful and poetical. He managed to write 60 to 70 books during 30 years.

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1918 - deMonfried in the center...

"Of all the creatures on the face of the earth, humans are those who adapt most easily, not only to the most extreme temperatures and climates but also to the most arduous conditions that life imposes on them." - Henri deMonfried

Before he passed away at 95 he stated: "I have lived a rich, restless, magnificent life"

Saturday, August 29, 2009

presented at Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, the Victoria and Albert Museum.....Distinguished silversmith to the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen mother and the Prince of Wales. Not to forget that many pieces of his art were private commissions. Benney studied at Brighton College of Art and the Royal College of Art ..

Benney was influenced by the simple purity and minimalism of Scandinavian design which is reflected in his work.

Surface texture - His earliest textured surfaces are from 1956 - this come to signify as his trademark - it had all happened by accident when he one day used a hammer with a damaged head.

He made his own hammers and brought the surface texture to the world of silversmiths....

He worked with Burch-Korrodi, in Zurich, Switzerland in the 1960s - to learn enamelling techniques. These skills had been obtained from Fabergé's craftsmen. Enamel and silver is much harder to process than actually using gold and enamel....due to the different temperatures when they expand.....

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